Source
doi:10.1186/s13705-023-00397-1 — original publication (opens in a new tab; the file is not redistributed)
Context: thesis · No NI feeds (shallow ingest)
Summary
Belmar, Baptista and Neves model renewable energy communities and report a self-sufficiency rate at two scales: for the individual participant (a household prosumer) and for the community as a whole. Their result gives the thesis the evidence side of the individual-versus-community distinction: individual self-consumption produces real but limited self-sufficiency, and pooling into a shared community system is what raises it. This is the operational counterpart to the definitional contrast in LIT_129, and it illustrates the move from household autonomy to interdependent, shared provisioning that the research argues for. Subordinate to the settled frameworks Bustamin (LIT_001) and the FEW nexus.
Key thesis insights
- Self-sufficiency measured at both scales. From the abstract (p.1): community electricity cost savings up to 42 percent, with community “self-sufficiency rate up to 12.5%”, while “Individual self-sufficiency rates register highest results for the residential prosumers (35% for PV prosumers, 28% for PV + electric vehicles and 54% with PV + batteries) while for other participants results fall between 6% (retail) and 26% (industry).” The paper names and quantifies both the individual and the community level side by side. LIT_128
- Individual self-sufficiency alone is not enough. The conclusions (pp.17-18) argue that existing individual self-consumption infrastructure is not sufficient to make an energy community viable, and that to become profitable communities should add larger shared PV systems on top of the individual assets. In thesis terms: household-scale self-sufficiency is a starting point, and interdependence at the community scale is what makes it work. LIT_128
Notes
- Role. Literature review (the literature review) and one Discussion callback, the evidence for the individual-versus-community distinction. Pair with LIT_129 (the definitions). Complements the community pole already held in LIT_020 and LIT_001.
- Provenance. Peer-reviewed open-access article, Energy, Sustainability and Society 13:18, SpringerOpen CC BY. Downloaded directly from the publisher, not AI-prepared, so no retrieval-provenance block.
- Scope. context thesis, feeds empty, shallow ingest. The percentages are illustrative of the two-scale argument and are not wired into any NI calculation. No research target opened.
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